What comes to your mind when you think about dieting? Take a minute to think about this. Did you think about fruits, vegetables, low fat, low carb, and small portion sizes? Or did you think about going to the gym,…

The Blogging Roller-Coaster Ride With naive enthusiasm you take your seat and get strapped in. You have heard of the thrills of the ride from other people. They speak of it as if it was the best thing they have done…

Yesterday I sat on a swing. The day was warm and calm and the laughter of children filled the air as I swung high and low. I watched as they played. Some were on swings like me. Others were doing their…

Christmas is an expensive time of the year. There are so many things to consider – presents, food, presents, decorations, and more presents. If there were ways to cut back on costs, I am sure you would jump at the…

Our adventure in Tromsø, Norway began when we landed in Tromsø airport at 6:30 p.m. on Thanksgiving day. We left Boston at 9:45 p.m. on Wednesday to Zurich, Switzerland. Then from there we transferred to Oslo, Norway and then finally from Oslo…

The Blogging Struggle Blogging is not a perpetual motion machine. This was my harsh reality over the last month. Blogging does not take care of itself, unless I am there to nurture it. I gave life to this baby three months…

I do not deliberately go out of my way to choose and select healthy food every day. When I go food shopping, I usually purchase whatever jumps out of the shelf into my cart as well as the regular veggies, and…

Quite recently I won some money on a lottery scratch card. I don’t often purchase lottery tickets. But on this occasion I had a $1.00 to spare after paying for gas. So I purchased a scratch card and won $5.00!…

This was my first election as an American citizen, so I was really excited about voting in a new president. Yet I was a little disappointed by the choices I had. Maybe many of us were. But I knew that…

Everyone has the ability to be creative in some way. There are no rules or limits to what you create. You just have to stop thinking about it and let yourself go with the flow of your imagination. That was exactly what…